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In his book, Conjectures from a Guilty Bystander, Merton offers this testimony to wonder and awe. I stepped out of the north wing of the monastery and
For me, the sense of wonder is synonymous with the Via Positiva. In the Via Positiva we are struck by awe—like Rachel Carson and her 20
In yesterday’s DM, we brought together the unlikely prophet of the environmental movement, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, and Catholic monk Thomas Merton who responded
Shortly after Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her iconic book that is credited with launching the environmental movement, Catholic monk Thomas Merton responded thus: I have been
We find ourselves living through a pandemic–not just of a virus but of lies and hatred, patriarchy and violence, wars and threats of nuclear war,
We meditated yesterday on the potential that mind-expansion has to turn the ugly to the beautiful and to steer the powerful energy of anger into
Activism is born of love and caring—and also of moral outrage and anger. Think of the thousands who marched in Selma or filled the jails voluntarily
Why is reuniting the psyche and the cosmos so important? Many people when they hear such talk will say “it sounds abstract”; or “I have more
I am very moved by yesterday’s DM and the comments from readers in response to it. And, in a special way, by the wonderful banner picture
In yesterday’s DM I shared the story of Buck Ghosthorse who was kidnapped as a child from his reservation and whose life is a story
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